Memo regarding a patent application made by Florenzio Orsi titled 'Improvements in saxophones' (patent application 20271/39) which described his improvements in the design of the instrument to improve the control of high notes using the right hand.
Memo from Geoffrey Hawkes to Brian Manton Myatt regarding a British Patent Application titled 'Improvements in Saxophones', with a photographic copy of the application
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Black and white negative of white two storey colonial style building
object | ARC/GUP/005/022
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Black and white photograph of the head and shoulders of a Wai Wai man positive of slide 8, taken from slide 7.
object | ARC/GUP/004/005
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Black and white medium format negative of man beside a slow flowing river
object | ARC/GUP/006/218
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Colour positive film of Wai Wai people (?) and expedition team members pulling boat in middle of river
object | ARC/GUP/004/110
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